1920s

different focus than the scandalous flappers. This was the tail end of the Greatest Generation, who gave birth to America’s next powerful subculture: the Baby Boomers, who were children and teens raised in the relatively harmonious 1950s. As in the 1920s, this era followed a horrific world war, but this time “people knew they had to grow up” said Reimer, “and they did this by buttoning up.” One side effect of wartime…

The Prohibition of 1920s, the banning of selling and transporting alcohol, was enforced through the Volstead Act, which was actually so important because this failure revealed this fact that banning something can have the opposite effect which makes it more desirable. At first, The Anti-Saloon League and Woman's Christian Temperance Union began supporting the prohibition, which caused the rise of it, but as time passed, rising crimes showed that it was nothing but a failure. Since the…

1. Explain the reasons for U.S. neutrality during the 1920s and 1930s. How did ideas about neutrality change during the period from the end of World War I to the passage of the Lend-Lease Act? Be sure to include any events, terms, or people that may support your response. After World War I, all the US wanted was stability. The US did not want to focus on foreign affairs, they wanted to focus on domestic issues. The solution to this was to remain neutral during the rise of powerful leaders in…

Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, popularized Fordism in the 1920’s. Signifying the development of mass production and the establishment of what is now recognised as consumerism. Ford developed the model of mass production, changing the way products were manufactured, simplifying tasks and reducing the necessity for skilled workers in labour roles and introduced management positions to the manufacturing industry. A fundamental principle Henry Ford pioneered was that product…

Who doesn’t like to have a bottle of cold beer after a hard day? Unfortunately, people in 1920s to early 1930s couldn’t, because the United States’ government prohibited alcoholic beverages. The government’s intention was to reduce crime rate and to make the America a healthier society. However, the outcome of the prohibition wasn’t the result that the government expected. A group of people named bootleggers started to sell alcoholic beverages illegally in a secret bar known as the speakeasies.…

The era following World War I known as the roaring twenties displayed a clash of traditional ideas and modernized ideas, both how these issues grew and their eventual outcomes. These issues manifested various social changes dealing with new immigration, religious tradition, the exploitation of mass media and new inventions, and the social tension with women, blacks, and gangs. The new flow of immigrants was restricted and controlled due to the hysteria induced by the Red Scare with liberals…

passing of the eighteenth amendment provided an opportunity for Lucania to recruit some new meat. Lucania became one of the “Big Six” of bootlegging along with Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel (“Luciano”, n.d.). His bootlegging gang grew throughout the 1920’s. Lucania and his friends recruited new Jewish gang members, including Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, nicknamed “Lepke” by his mother, Abner “Longie” Zwillman, another Jew, and Zwillman’s partner, Willie Moretti (Gosch, 1975). These unscrupulous…

Consumerism is currently described as the economic theory that a large, continuous, consumption of products is socially and economically desirable for the American people. Although this trend may have been adamant in the 1950’s and so on, it began within the 1920’s, where corporate profits and industrial wages began to rise significantly. The introduction of Fordism, where workers were given larger wages allowing for them to buy their company's own products, also introduced an new idea of…

Following a rise of the contemporary consumer society in America in 1920s, the accompanying lifestyle choices have become aspired to and as a result have spread across the ocean to the rest of the world. Nevertheless, the origins of consumer society date back to 16th century; and the real development began following the industrial revolution, when higher production required swift and higher consumption and as a result an expanding middle and working class have transformed into consuming class,…

attributed to anti-discriminatory practices against minorities such as the abolition of slavery and the amendments giving minorities the right to work and vote. These amendments, of the late 1800s, brought about the right to vote for women in the 1920s through the ratification of the nineteenth amendment, which is considered an iconic event in the effort to obtain women’s equality. Women’s…